undermeyou's reviews
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I have been done with this for awhile, and I am regretting not writing my review right away. I adored this and wanted to do nothing but sit with it reading forever, but for transparency's sake, other than length, I did not find this much different than the original. The point of view change was the largest difference and offered more opportunity to dig into the sapphic. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.

I was sent a complimentary audiobook of this from Flatiron as an ARC & I am unfortunately getting to it a bit late. The multiple POV worked really well in this and was done mixing 1st and 3rd person, which is rare and appreciated. For me I felt a small amount of drag in Rowan finding things out, and I found myself wishing for more detail to leak in, but the building of relationships made up for this, and I didn't see any of the end twists too far ahead of time.

This was a really fun audiobook. The story was sweet and faster paced than my usual reads but still an adequately weird-fantasy. I don’t know that I would have enjoyed this much as a physical/digital read. There is A LOT of singing, and that is always one of my least favorite things in books(sometimes even when it is a song that I know the melody of it can still be off-putting to me), because it is almost always a made up song, and I am simply not a musician and hear no song in my head by reading some rhyming words. Like a lot of Tor’s shorter length releases, this felt a bit like too much got cut, so I’d love to be immersed entirely in this world in a full-length, or at least a longer length novella, but that is because the world was so strange and exciting. Thank you to Tor & NetGalley for the complimentary audiobook